Batsugun
THE FINAL CHAPTER IN TOAPLAN’S SHMUP SAGA
Set out on a breathtaking journey with Batsugun, Toaplan’s shoot-’em-up swansong! Choose your hero from a roster of six charismatic pilots and three distinctive ship types, each brimming with personality. Immerse yourself in a world of dazzling graphics, devastating firepower, and an enchanting soundtrack, creating a sensory experience you won’t soon forget. The accessible gameplay ensures that seasoned veterans and newcomers alike can revel in the unmatched thrill of victory!
In addition, the rebalanced Batsugun Special is also included, and features a visual overhaul with new colors and altered enemy behavior. A smaller hitbox and a shield protecting the ship from one hit, makes it easier which is needed as the barrage of enemy projectiles ups the ante for the true bullet hell factor. Batsugun Special introduces multiple loops, increasing difficulty with each completion. Can you master all four loops?
“As we prepare to launch with the Skull Hornets, our mission stands clear: overthrow the oppressive regime of King Renoselva A. Gladebaran VII. The path ahead is fraught with adrenaline-pumping battles and perilous missions. Our comrades and I are eager, but the question lingers: can we restore liberty to our people and emerge victorious?”
ORIGINAL GAME FEATURES:
- Embark on an enthralling sci-fi adventure where every encounter feels like a mini-boss battle at minimum, demanding your utmost vigilance to survive.
- Unleash mighty weapons like the Sky Mirage, Dragon’s Whisper, and Judgement Flash to eradicate enemy threats.
- Boost your firepower with experience points from defeated enemies.
- Immerse yourself in the captivating space melodies of Yoshitatsu Sakai.
QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS:
- Minimal Input Lag: Emulation, input processing, and rendering all complete on the same frame.
- Quick Save using F1-F10, Reload with Shift+ F1-F10
- Online leaderboards for Single Credit, No Assist, and Assisted plays.
- Instrument panels with extra gameplay information and artwork.
- Rewind the game between 10-18 minutes, depending on the action.
- Capture sharable replays to immortalize your interstellar victories (or funny moments).
- Assist Features such as auto-fire at multiple rates.
- Very Easy Mode: Lower the difficulty to breeze through the adventure.
- Pixel perfect or full-screen scaling in windowed or full-screen mode.
- Rotate the gameplay in 90-degree increments.
- Steam Achievements
- Choose between Raw Input on Windows or Steam Input.
- Hone your skills in the ultra customizable practice mode!
Game Discussion
Steam User 4
A cool as hell and addictive old school shmup with a 90's anime aesthetic, catchy music and hard but fair difficulty.
Includes the original version of the game and a "Special" version which is a bit easier because your hitbox is tiny and bosses have a lot less health. The special version also loops 4 times and it gets harder each time. Loops 3 and 4 are madness.
Both versions are good but if you just want to blow up hundreds of ships to cool chiptunes then special is the way to go.
It feels really nice to play, this is top tier old school arcade goodness.
Steam User 3
Superb port of an absolute classic shoot-em up game that bridges the gap from old school shumps to modern bullet hell games. Full of great QoL features such as save states, level selects, multiple difficulty options etc. The perfect beginner intro to the shoot em up genre!
Steam User 1
My god how fun this game is. I got my first 1CC in the special version. A fantastic experience that will get you hooked on shmups for life!
Steam User 1
This is the cheaper Batsugun on steam (there are 2 versions) and it is bare bones, but it have a nice rewind feature and it just works! Very good shmup.
Steam User 0
I really love this classic badass Toaplan shmup. Extremely well done and satisfactory to play. This Bitwave port satisfies the minimum requirements of low input lag, providing both the Original and Special versions as well as some additional options such as recording the gameplay. But Toaplan shmups deserve much better such as enhanced graphics and soundtrack and overall better gadgets and more elaborate UI, The lack of effort from the Bitwave team would justify a negative rating.
Steam User 0
When you boot up Batsugun you're going to have good time, no question.
A game lauded for being both a peak and a consistent building block for everything that came after in the genre. There's a beauty in a shmup that really is just shooting and dodging without any frills.
The difficulty curve of this game is smooth, it continuously asks you for more but never too much.
It has customizable difficulty settings to let you play at your leisure, and an entire different mode of play in the Special version that in short, gives you an easier time, but has a much higher ceiling than the base version. A little give, a little take.
The presentation of this game is phenomenally 90s, the music, the character designs, the way machinery looks, it all belongs on a crunchy CRT tv while the pizza is in the oven after school.
It's the perfect game for beginners to get into the genre with while being crazy affordable compared to most other arcade ports and collections. on top of being a great little history lesson for everybody that joined late like me, and missed some of these gems until recently.
Steam User 0
This game is my gateway drug into SHMUPS
I get it now
It's like Cleveland from Family Guy said that one time:
"You don't win, you just do a little better each time" (unless you use continues which you get an unlimited number of, if you so choose)